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2004-09-16 5:31 PM
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Oh! LOL! That is funny! Thanks for the translations. 'P word' as in little cats, right? (I'm a little slow.)

2004-09-16 7:36 PM
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I say tri-athlon but often hear it butchered.

I'm from Indiana and the language there is completely messed up:
wash = worsch
soda = coke
those hills = them there heels
over there = ovar yonder

Hardest habit to break was dropping the r from WASH!
Plus now I always order ice tea to avoid the soda vs. coke vs. pop controversy
2004-09-17 8:43 AM
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kimj81 - 2004-09-16 5:31 PM

Oh! LOL! That is funny! Thanks for the translations. 'P word' as in little cats, right? (I'm a little slow.)


You are SOOOO close. Change the gender and you have it

-Frank
2004-09-17 10:42 AM
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my pet peeve:

"rate of speed" as in "the car was traveling at a high rate of speed before the driver lost control".....

By definition, speed IS a rate, distance over time. Rate of speed is distance over time over time again, which is known as acceleration.
2004-09-17 10:54 AM
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...or when people use speed and velocity interchangably.

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2004-09-17 10:58 AM
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Oh, as in what I do to my fingers when I sew? Not quite as funny... but still damn funny!

2004-09-17 11:00 AM
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kimj81 - 2004-09-17 10:58 AM

Oh, as in what I do to my fingers when I sew? Not quite as funny... but still damn funny!


Bingo!
2004-09-17 3:09 PM
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bootygirl - 2004-09-17 9:42 AM my pet peeve: "rate of speed" as in "the car was traveling at a high rate of speed before the driver lost control"..... By definition, speed IS a rate, distance over time. Rate of speed is distance over time over time again, which is known as acceleration.

Made me think of the NHL  games - "there is no score"

What is that??? Of course there is a score:  0 - 0 is still a score people!

2004-09-17 5:18 PM
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Isn't that a drinking fountain???

2004-09-17 5:19 PM
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I'm in for POP also...

2004-09-17 5:21 PM
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I hate that WORSCH word. That is not a word. I correct my friend Mary Pat every time she says it...(She's from Kentucky)  "I worsched a load of darks..." or "I worsched my car..." WHAAAATTT????

There is no "R" in wash. (There's no O or C either, by the way...)



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2004-09-18 12:17 AM
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IT'S POP FOR ME!!!!!

Soda water is the only acceptable form of soda here!

2004-09-24 10:30 PM
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Why POP? Because it is (onomatopiea) the sound it produces when opening a can? I'm so glad we are not using microphones here because you all would get a fit. I carry a very strong accent that even my daughters laugh at some of the words I say. I go for soda because pop comes accross as an inocent tiny little piece of sound from a flatulent accident.
2004-09-25 11:10 PM
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I think we just use the pop part of "soda pop", and I have no idea of the origin of either word.  It is bizarre when you really think about it!
2004-09-26 12:40 AM
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My dad had a antique bottle collection.  One of the bottles was a "pop" bottle.  It had a stopper with a hook on it.  To open it you hit it with your hand, knocking the stopper into the bottle, with the hook catching on the mouth of the bottle.  It made a POP sound when opened and thus the term Pop!   .  
2004-09-26 12:53 AM
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Pop, not soda. Also, trialthon.

Aluminum does not end in "eee-um"

Do not say "a whole nother" in my presence, ever, please. And if you could care less, that means you do care a little, so if you really don't give a darn, please PLEASE tell me you "couldn't care less."

These things drive me crazy, but we must also remember how language evolves. I quote one of my 4th year English professors: "The impact of laziness on the development of the English language is not to be underestimated."

That explains everything.

2004-09-26 12:54 AM
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sunnyone79 - Also, trialthon.


Hee hee, I meant "triathlon"
2004-10-03 9:41 AM
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It was pop for me growing up in Utah. Now I live in CA I had to change to SODA as people laughed at me when I asked for pop, or looked confused. Even my kids, CA born and bred.

Also, it is SO crick
and "wolf" is pronounced woof. I can't get the L in there for the life of me. So I guess it will always be woofs.
2004-10-03 11:05 PM
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I have a theory that folks from the northeast are very fond of the letter "R".  They must feel its wholly underutilized in the English language, so much so that they have to make up for it by generously adding it into their words.  For instance, they put an "R" at the end of the word "Idea".  They took a word with an "R" in it already, and added yet another - Water, or in its new form, warter.  These are just a few examples of the many out there...

2004-10-04 9:33 AM
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Don't forget drawring (drawing), arl (oil) and parlbarriers (pallbearers)...

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